We headed to the city this morning to have coffee with a guy Brady knows from work, and his wife. It was a cool circumstance, as they are Christians, yet we didn’t meet in a church environment. Maybe it sounds stereotypical or just flat out lame, but thats where we find most of our friends. However, we’ve made a few connections with people Brady runs into, including the painter, and now a delivery driver.
We hung out at a Tim Hortons, and our visit quickly became a two hour conversation. I appreciated them and their patience. Dekker was throwing fits when they arrived and continued to for the first little while. We were the terrible parents who gave him donuts to keep him quiet. Honestly, I don’t actually feel that badly about it. We rarely give him things like that, so I think its ok once in a while. He was fairly content after his donut, and sat patiently while we visited. Our new friends seemed way more wrapped up and enthralled with our kids than we did! It was a really nice time, and we’re meeting them again on Friday.
From Tims, we went to Walmart for a few things. We have a need for tubs around here, and there has been a nice tub sale going on for a while now, so we got four tubs for Dekkers megablock, duplo, cars, and plastic food. We also picked up a few groceries and I got a few new makeup things I wanted to try. For the first time in my life, I think I need to use an under-eye thing to cover bags. Sad but true. At least I’ve made it this far.
Home was next. Both kids slept on the way home. Its hard to see here, but it happened.
We put Dekker back down once we got home and made a late lunch for ourselves while he slept. Once he started waking up, we arranged all the toys in the tubs, which was noisy but nice. I’m glad we picked up the biggest tub we could find for megablocks. We needed it!
Dekker looked like a million bucks when he woke up! He looked so grown up today, it blew my mind, and I have to share his beautiful face with you guys!
Too bad that beautiful boy has started hitting again 🙁 Only at bedtime, because he’s bummed. If he ever hits in the day, he gets time outs, and they actually really do the trick! But time outs right before bed are awful, because he thinks we’re just abandoning him at bedtime. So today, when he hit on the way to his room, we decided he couldn’t come to our room for jumping time. He was so remorseful. But that lets me know that its a good consequence. It was sad. I miss him. We have such good playtime before bed! But hopefully this will do the trick sooner than later.
Tomorrow, we’re actually going to go to church! We’ve been such slackers, and it’ll be good to be back and see everyone we’ve been missing. Brady and I are in a terrible rut of going to bed super late and getting up late in the morning too. Hopefully we have the energy to be good Christians tomorrow!!